bitey posted:

Before he took money from Israel, Pollard evidently hawked the classified info to China and Pakistan and possibly others. There were no buyers other than Israel, as far as we know.

Every country that rebuffed him learned something anyway. The information he was selling could be bought, perhaps through other compromised US personnel, and perhaps for less money.

Arguably, Snowden and Manning acted out of conscience. Pollard, a promiscuous information salesman, cannot make this claim.